11:00 Publishing Partnerships—Literary Agent Julie Stevenson and Publisher Daniel Slager (along with special guests Sharma Shields and Chris Dombrowski, authors who have worked with respective speakers) discuss some of their favorite methods and collaborations

12:30 Lunch

1:15Hemingway V Stevens: A Literary Shootout—An optional skeet-shooting contest pits prose writers against poets, with a bet on the side (spectators/hecklers welcome)

2:30 Searching For My Father’s Song: Some Thoughts on Sound and Sense, the Line and the Sentence—Jack Driscoll’s much anticipated annual craft lecture: no further intro necessary

4:00 First Book Celebration, Second Book Shock—Award-winning young fiction writers Callan Wink and Sharma Shields talk paths to the debut, followed by elation and the inevitable sophomore pressure to deliver once again

10:00 Alternative Lifestyles— fiction writers Smith Henderson and Amelia Gray discuss their work as screenwriters in Hollywood and the advertising world, and how/if these day jobs parlay with their art

11:30 Choosing the Proper Channel—Pete Fromm, Callan Wink, and Brad Watson discuss working in multiple genres and attempt shed some light on what helps them distinguish, for example, potential memoir from fiction, short fiction from novel, etc. Includes Q and A